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The Library of Congress has just released their report on the pilot program in which they uploaded a couple thousand photos from their archive onto Flickr. By all accounts the project has been declared a huge success. According to the report “the photos have drawn more than 10 million views, 7,166 comments and more than 67,000 tags”. These are simply astonishing numbers!

And now the NYPL is following suit. I’m incredibly jealous, coming from a library with a large photo archive that we will likely never get around to indexing fully. These project are a great way to both fill in metadata, and to ensure these materials are discovered and utilized, and I’m hoping the results of the LoC’s project will inspire others to do the same.